I don't think that time travel is possible, at least going backwards in time. What do you think?

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Of course it is possible. Each time some future being travels into the past, that being is inevitably the cause of some past effect. That effect will be a branching in the space-time continuum just like in Back To The Future. Now, what this implies is that there are literally infinite, yet countable, branches that exist on the space-time continuum tree.

Each space-time branch leads into a different dimension; this is why we are able to completely avoid all time traveling beings. Since you were born, you may have been in contact with many time travelers, but at the exact moment they came into your life, your new life with them would branch away from your main life. Every person has one existence that is unalterable while alive. Every person has many different existences that they are not aware of in this particular instance of their unalterable being. The different existences exist in different dimensions, and you do not have knowledge of the experiences of the other dimensional instances of yourself.

It is worth noting that, because the other dimensional instances of your being are not aware of your main being actions and vice versa, that once your main being dies, the other dimensional instances of your being may continue to live. One thing I do not believe in is traveling to other dimensions, because if this could happen, then there would be all sorts of negative consequences that would lead to our Universe's untimely demise. I would go into this, but it is far too advanced for this particular thread.

One could argue for inter-dimensional travel with twins, dopplegängers, and Elvis sightings, but I really think while twins are easily explainable by means of biology, to me, the latter subjects are nothing more than rubbish. Additionally, one may ask, how can I be sure I am my main unalterable self and not some particular branch in my life tree? The answer is not always known. If a time traveler reveals himself to you, then you know; unless they are crazy. Otherwise, you are just screwed.

Interesting. Those are some of Bob Bryton's idead, no?

The different existences exist in different dimensions, and you do not have knowledge of the experiences of the other dimensional instances of yourself.

Why not? If time traveling is a manipulated process, why do you not have knowledge of yourself in another dimension?

So the other person will just be? I am 24 and if I were to time travel, I'll just be 24 in another dimension as if that were the first day of my life?

What's the point of time traveling if you don't remember the past or have the knowledge of yourself.

edit: that's not a question even though it starts with a "what."

If the other dimension has totally nothing to do with this instance, that means all the matters, energy, and God in that dimension have to be a duplication. Where would all these "stuff" come from? And the more you travel, the more duplications there will be. Stuff can't just come out of nothing, especially when everyone creates their own time machine.

I agree now. I don't have a fucking clue why I exist in this dimension anyway.

Oh, I was thinking, when time traveling is a manipulated process, you would want to have a point because I doubt it's cheap.

They may well be seperate, kind of like different pages in the same book, if one is destoryed, you can travel to another which may be exactly the same as your previous, or completely different. We can't know for sure,yet.

Just because you're traveling through dimensions, doesn't mean you're creating them.

What I meant when I said you become two people, was that if you could find a way to move to dimension B with memory of your former life in dimension A, and then came back to dimension A with memory of your life in dimenion B, you would be two people, living in two dimensions, because your memory is commited to one brain, even though your brain is only in one physical body.

That was one long sentance.

What are you talking about?

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"Is that possible? To time travel speed?"

Posted By: Trance

Wait, so she talked about time travel and dimensions while on drugs?

No, sadly she was trying to figure out if Back to the Future really happened or was fiction.

When I sleep I travel anywhere between 5 and 11 hours into the future.

I do agree that travelling to the past is not only hard and possibly impossible but dangerous. but Time travel into the distant future using a machine yet remaining the same age is tht possible?

i think it would be perfectly safe if you could travel in time like a invisible thing, as in nobody can see u, just like we think that lower dimensions (in this instance i mean 3d and tht not universe style) cannot see higher but we can see them, so we could travel through time and look how a hole would to a 1d person (not actually possible to have) they would not see or be able to pass throuugh to us or interact with us, like we react with air.
you get me?
sorry my description isn't very good its the only way i can think of saying it
so we are like inside a bubble in the time stream.

Posted By: Monetdell

I do agree that travelling to the past is not only hard and possibly impossible but dangerous.

Look what almost happened in "Back to the Future"!

you get me?

Sure! It's sort of like what happened to Scrooge and the ghosts in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol

Posted By: Monetdell

I do agree that travelling to the past is not only hard and possibly impossible but dangerous. but Time travel into the distant future using a machine yet remaining the same age is tht possible?

I don't see too much point in that, if you can't come back, unless you want to be a "historian." Or dissected.

Time travel already exists. I am currently traveling forward in time now.

If you are asking about traveling backwards, or staying stationary (time-wise) for a while (which cannot be defined when time is stationary o.0), or moving faster than normal, I believe in either two theories, based on my mood, and which personality is currently awake.

The first one is based on the fact that we've already done this. It relies deeply with the entire idea of deja vu; yeah, it really has already happened. As we travel forward in this universe, we screw it up. The very heart of time is being eaten up by some black hole on a joyride. And so time screws up.

The next one is based on the fact that time travel -- other than forward at a constant rate -- is itself impossible. Think about it this way, if you can: let us say that one person travels back in time. He has already changed the timeline just by doing that alone -- an additional person on a subway, an additional person ordering coffee. According to chaos theory, that could do anything and cause any help or harm to the state of everybody's minds and the universe. In addition, it does not matter what you do in that time, because what you do outside of your own time has already or will already have happened. Therefore, attempting to change the 2000 election results or the most used fuel in the U.S. won't affect the present, whatever that is. In addition, because this creates the biggest loophole in people's heads, there are two theories about what could happen; nothing could happen, or everything could spontaneously explode.

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The way I see it is, if you were to travel backwards in time, you wouldn't know it, because you'd be affected, too. Any machine you built wouldn't hold up, because backwards time would undo its creation, therefore you could never know that you had traveled. You would be affected just as much (e.g. Any memory patterns on your brain of the future would be erased by backwards time. You would get younger, and nothing would change. You'd be stuck in a time warp, so to speak. You'd only ever get as far as the moment you went back in time. As for the dimensions theory, that has nothing to do with what I just said, and I don't think we have the power to travel into other dimensions anyway, even if they do exist.

Posted By: nyarfdude

The way I see it is, if you were to travel backwards in time, you wouldn't know it, because you'd be affected, too. Any machine you built wouldn't hold up, because backwards time would undo its creation, therefore you could never know that you had traveled. You would be affected just as much (e.g. Any memory patterns on your brain of the future would be erased by backwards time. You would get younger, and nothing would change. You'd be stuck in a time warp, so to speak. You'd only ever get as far as the moment you went back in time. As for the dimensions theory, that has nothing to do with what I just said, and I don't think we have the power to travel into other dimensions anyway, even if they do exist.

If you built a time machine and kept it for a year before traveling back in time 6 months, the time machine would still exist, therefore you could go forward in time 6 months again, thus, avoiding the loop, you could even bring someone with you, and they could meet themselves in the future.

On a sidenote: I was cruising a metaphysical forum the other day(well, month, I don't visit them much, it's a lot of professors exchanging too much jargon for my liking), and came across a theory that the past, future, and hypothetical presents are all happening now, just on a different wavelength, similar to seperate dimensions, just restricted to time. Anybody have any information on that? I'm eager to learn more.

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Posted By: Trance, tommorrow

Anybody have any information on that?

Hey, Fact totum, you have any information on that?

I already did.